Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-28
THE TIDE RISES
What Mr.. Van Amman Tells Us to Get
Ready For.


ii. NJ. Van Arman, Chicago immigration
agent for the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company, is in the city. Mr.. Van Arman
Is but little over a week from Chicago.
His report Of the outlook for immigration
into California, and the central and
northern section especially, is very crafty
ing. He says that the people of the Cen
trail States, the West and Northwest, are
just beginning to "get their eyes opened -
about California, and to realize that they
have been laboring under grave misappre-
hension in the past. The idea that
Northern California is Arctic in climate
had gained credence with them, but that
belief is now being rapidly dissipated. and
the people of the East are beginning to
find out that they have been sadly misled
by name. Mr.. Van Amman says there is
current of immigration coming into
Northern and Central California, that will
swell to a tide in few months
that will astonish the people here.
He agrees with the expression
so often made in these columns, that prep
aration must be made for the home-seeker.
He must find lands ready for him. If
they are surveyed and plated, and reser-
vations are made and water assured, the
settlement of such places, the soil being
good, is matter of comparative ease But
only rarely will the newcomer come to
hew and grub out a spot for himself They
like TO come in colony groups, because
they find strength in association, congenial
society from the outset, and each feels that
he will be cared for and have neighbors he
knows and who are in some degree at
tached to him. Mr.. Van Arman believes
the people of this section cannot get ready
Tor the ew-comers too soon. The current
is moving, and il is more likely TO move by
place unprepared for it than to pause.
He is enthusiastic in his praise of the Cali
fornia climate and capacity, and declares
with emphasis that they are unsurpassed
within his knowledge or inquiry or read
ing. and he has latterly been so situated
as to hear Eastern public estimates of it
and comment upon ii by the most in:elli-
gent OF people. Mr.. Van Amman is conf.
dent that Northern California will have an
immense influx of new blood speedily, and
advises that we make ready to welcome it.
Mr.. Van Amman returns to the East tonight.
In view of these facts and these state
ments by Mr.. Van Amman, drawn from
him IN ordinary conversation, perhaps
those who doubt the necessity of preparing
outside or suburban lands for homeseekers
Will modify their views. We have 42O
families between Folsom and Walnut
Grove. We ought to have 1 400 within a
year, and if a 1.-THE of the activity men
would show in opening up a gold mine at
Brighton or Gait is manifested in this
" make ready matter, we will accomplish
the desired end. 1t is not the time now, of
all others, to neglect the opportunity we
have, in order to beat in the doors of the
big grants in the north. No cessation of
that haffarincr Sbnnl1 ha 80 H..
it must not lessen one whit the scheme to
settle suburban Sacramento, irrespective of
the grants. Break 'em up, but don't let
that endeavor for a moment divert atten-
ton from a work equally as important and
as Immediately necessary.